Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.
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The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.
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I don’t like where I’m going and I don’t like where I’ve been. Why am I in a hurry?
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The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.
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A good soldier has his heart and soul in it. When he receives an order, he gets a hard on, and when he drives his lance through his enemy’s guts, he comes.
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When the leaders speak of peace The common folk know That war is coming When the leaders curse war
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The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London.
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You don’t need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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But something’s missing.
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You can make a fresh start with your final breath.
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The righteous one has no sense of humor.
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What’s a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
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